Since the Amiga now was stable and fully useable, it quickly became the most used computer at home. Something that led to an unexpected problem – the lady of the house (who is by the way a hardcore gamer and used to computer sounds) started to complain about the sound level of the PSU fan. I have to admit that it might be considered a tad annoying, but when I measured the sound I realized that it actually was quite…
Now after the inside was cleaned and the first vital upgrades were done, I was eager to start using the computer again after the close to 20 years of hibernation it had undergone. Then the next problem appeared, and set me back for more than a month. The hard drives were old, and as it turned out also a bit unstable. Within the first hour after I had upgraded the computer I made a simple reboot, and then suddenly I…
When the exterior and keyboard was now sorted out, it was beyond time to look at the insides. The first things to do was obviously get rid of all the dust and see how much damage the battery had done. Also a quick recap of what hardware I had in my Amiga. Kickstart 1.4 (original A3000 ROM’s) – softkicked to 3.1 4 MB of fastmem, 256 KB x 4 ZIP 80ns Picasso II RTG card with 2 MB video memory…
As noted in last post the A3000 was in quite bad shape cosmetically. Before I went further with work on the computer I wanted to make sure that it was clean and also looked appealing. It was not the worst case of yellowing, and it is of course always debatable wether Retrobrighting is a good idea or not, but I decided that my goal with this restoration was to in a way give me the computer I dreamt of but couldn’t afford…
The Amiga 3000 – the pinnacle of my Amiga years ranging from 1991 to 1998 – had been in heavy hibernation for almost twenty years up until this very winter. My dwellings into the world of retro equipment had started a few years earlier with a heavy load of NES and interest in mainly watching speedrunning from events like Awesome Games Done Quick etc. I sorted out a RetroPie and built it into an old NES that I had lying…